linux/Documentation/sysctl, branch v4.20

Merge tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2018-11-01T18:46:27Z

Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook: "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense against at least two classes of flaws: - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too). - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but provides the coverage for stacks. The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon). With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin" * tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca() stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

bpf: add bpf_jit_limit knob to restrict unpriv allocations

2018-10-26T00:11:42Z

Rick reported that the BPF JIT could potentially fill the entire module space with BPF programs from unprivileged users which would prevent later attempts to load normal kernel modules or privileged BPF programs, for example. If JIT was enabled but unsuccessful to generate the image, then before commit 290af86629b2 ("bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config") we would always fall back to the BPF interpreter. Nowadays in the case where the CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON could be set, then the load will abort with a failure since the BPF interpreter was compiled out. Add a global limit and enforce it for unprivileged users such that in case of BPF interpreter compiled out we fail once the limit has been reached or we fall back to BPF interpreter earlier w/o using module mem if latter was compiled in. In a next step, fair share among unprivileged users can be resolved in particular for the case where we would fail hard once limit is reached. Fixes: 290af86629b2 ("bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config") Fixes: 0a14842f5a3c ("net: filter: Just In Time compiler for x86-64") Co-Developed-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kees Cook Cc: LKML Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

2018-09-09T21:08:58Z

This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing

2018-09-04T17:35:48Z

Introduce CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE option, which provides 'stack_erasing' sysctl. It can be used in runtime to control kernel stack erasing for kernels built with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov Tested-by: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2018-08-24T01:48:43Z

Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag. The purpose is to make data spoofing attacks harder. This protection can be turned on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like the symlinks/hardlinks protection. This patch is based on Openwall's "HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer. This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation: CVE-2000-1134 CVE-2007-3852 CVE-2008-0525 CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2011-4834 CVE-2015-1838 CVE-2015-7442 CVE-2016-7489 This list is not meant to be complete. It's difficult to track down all vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any mention of this particular attack vector. In fact, before hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite vehicle to exploit them. [s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future] [keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Suggested-by: Solar Designer Suggested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq

2018-08-22T17:52:51Z

ipc_addid() initializes kern_ipc_perm.seq after having called idr_alloc() (within ipc_idr_alloc()). Thus a parallel semop() or msgrcv() that uses ipc_obtain_object_check() may see an uninitialized value. The patch moves the initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq before the calls of idr_alloc(). Notes: 1) This patch has a user space visible side effect: If /proc/sys/kernel/*_next_id is used (i.e.: checkpoint/restore) and if semget()/msgget()/shmget() fails in the final step of adding the id to the rhash tree, then .._next_id is cleared. Before the patch, is remained unmodified. There is no change of the behavior after a successful ..get() call: It always clears .._next_id, there is no impact to non checkpoint/restore code as that code does not use .._next_id. 2) The patch correctly documents that after a call to ipc_idr_alloc(), the full tear-down sequence must be used. The callers of ipc_addid() do not fullfill that, i.e. more bugfixes are required. The patch is a squash of a patch from Dmitry and my own changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712185241.4017-3-manfred@colorfullife.com Reported-by: syzbot+2827ef6b3385deb07eaf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout

2018-08-22T17:52:47Z

Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout. This is fine for most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups (syzbot). In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup < RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent machine loss. The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g. if task hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins). The additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests. Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout. This allows to set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs. The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl, similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl. The default value of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to timeout. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: update __vm_enough_memory()'s path

2018-08-22T17:52:44Z

__vm_enough_memory has moved to mm/util.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E18EDF4A4FA4A04BBFA824B6D7699E532A7E5913@EXMBX-SZMAIL013.tencent.com Signed-off-by: Juvi Liu Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2018-08-18T18:04:51Z

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the bit set of char/misc drivers for 4.19-rc1 There is a lot here, much more than normal, seems like everyone is writing new driver subsystems these days... Anyway, major things here are: - new FSI driver subsystem, yet-another-powerpc low-level hardware bus - gnss, finally an in-kernel GPS subsystem to try to tame all of the crazy out-of-tree drivers that have been floating around for years, combined with some really hacky userspace implementations. This is only for GNSS receivers, but you have to start somewhere, and this is great to see. Other than that, there are new slimbus drivers, new coresight drivers, new fpga drivers, and loads of DT bindings for all of these and existing drivers. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (255 commits) android: binder: Rate-limit debug and userspace triggered err msgs fsi: sbefifo: Bump max command length fsi: scom: Fix NULL dereference misc: mic: SCIF Fix scif_get_new_port() error handling misc: cxl: changed asterisk position genwqe: card_base: Use true and false for boolean values misc: eeprom: assignment outside the if statement uio: potential double frees if __uio_register_device() fails eeprom: idt_89hpesx: clean up an error pointer vs NULL inconsistency misc: ti-st: Fix memory leak in the error path of probe() android: binder: Show extra_buffers_size in trace firmware: vpd: Fix section enabled flag on vpd_section_destroy platform: goldfish: Retire pdev_bus goldfish: Use dedicated macros instead of manual bit shifting goldfish: Add missing includes to goldfish.h mux: adgs1408: new driver for Analog Devices ADGS1408/1409 mux dt-bindings: mux: add adi,adgs1408 Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup synic memory free path Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove use of slow_virt_to_phys() Drivers: hv: vmbus: Reset the channel callback in vmbus_onoffer_rescind() ...

Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.

2018-07-26T22:24:16Z

This patch adds 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter which is currently missing in 'vm.txt' file. It also contains a short description of 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter. Signed-off-by: Prashant Dhamdhere Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet